From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Mon Apr 25 10:14:50 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6F79816A4CE for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:14:50 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail.nativenerds.com (host-70-0-111-24.midco.net [24.111.0.70]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D4E2543D4C for ; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:14:49 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) Received: from red (host-133-35-230-24.midco.net [24.230.35.133]) j3PARnaZ007250; Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:27:50 -0600 (MDT) (envelope-from estover@nativenerds.com) From: Ed Stover To: ananth_g@sifycorp.com In-Reply-To: <1114075085.42676fcdbae50@mail.sifycorp.com> References: <1114075085.42676fcdbae50@mail.sifycorp.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Native Nerds Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 04:15:38 -0600 Message-Id: <1114424138.35965.13.camel@red.nativenerds.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.0.3 FreeBSD GNOME Team Port Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Spam-Status: No, hits=0.0 required=5.0 tests=none autolearn=no version=2.63 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 2.63 (2004-01-11) on mail.nativenerds.com cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: building good custom kernel X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: estover@nativenerds.com List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Mon, 25 Apr 2005 10:14:50 -0000 On Thu, 2005-04-21 at 14:48 +0500, ananth_g@sifycorp.com wrote: > > > hi , > i tried building the freebsd 5.3 kernel and it works > fine, but can u people give me some tips regarding > optimizing kernel during build, even saving a single > cpu cycle would mean a lot. i would like to have a > kernel that is really optimized. And what do you > people do to fine tune the kernel? > > thanks, > ananth.g > > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" Depends on what you are fine tuning a kernel for. Like for a firewall nat box i do things like turn up the HZ and for mail servers I increase the max users....? What is your machine's intended application? A good reference is "man tuning"